FREE AFRICA!
Free East Africa! Free Uganda Unseating the Ankole-cattle patron Take the reigns from the old order and pass the button To the youth and to the future Down with systemic generational nepotism Burn down the age of despotism Destroy the old wine skins Because the future is now, now is all we have Give Bobi no pen, give him a gun For if the Nile has to turn scarlet for the pearl of Africa to glow once more so be it! Free East Africa! free Tanzania A single party anarchy that cares not of human rights A masked dictatorship that promises shorter days and longer nights The party of Nyerere, the African Shakespeare reeks of nothing but unprecedented fear Down with the hopelessness brought by anarchy Burn down the electoral injustices and the suppression of basic freedoms Fire up the belly of the Tanzanian patriot Give them a straw to hold on to in this sea of turmoil With their sorrows deeper than Tanganyika and their expectations higher th...